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Season 1

  • S01E01 D-Day: First Men In

    • January 17, 2005

    Recalling D-Day and the invasion of Normandy.

  • S01E02 The Raid at Cabanatuan

    The Japanese attack on Manila, just hours after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

  • S01E03 Last of the Buffalo Soldiers

    Korean War missions involving the Army's 24th Regiment are detailed.

  • S01E04 Lam Son 719

    Operation Lam Son 719, a 1971 South Vietnamese offensive (with U.S. air support) in Laos that was aimed at taking out a North Vietnamese supply route.

  • S01E05 Battle of Al Khafji

    The first major battle of Desert Storm, at the Saudi Arabian coastal town of Al Khafji.

  • S01E06 Ambush in Iraq

    The first days of the Iraq War, when the 1st Marine Division raced to Baghdad.

  • S01E07 Just One Man

    On April 2, 1972 an American combat jet, call sign Bat 21, was blown apart by a North Vietnamese missile. Of the six men on that plane, just one survived, the navigator, Lt. Col. Iceal "Gene" Hambleton.

  • S01E08 Kiowa Down

    • September 26, 2005

    On September 4, 2004, while en route to recover a downed Kiowa helicopter and rescue its two pilots, troops from Scout Platoon and B Company of the 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment found themselves in the midst of a brutal firefight. Iraqi insurgents, hoping to capture the chopper and its crew, relentlessly bombarded the approaching U.S. forces with rocket-propelled grenades and 60mm mortar fire. Hear actual testimony from the men involved as they bring this particularly fierce engagement to life and reveal its surprising outcome.